The Children's Illustrated Annual (Seeley and Co.) is notable for
the really good art which it contains. The illustrations are described as being "after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sir T. Lawrence, Romney, and others, and are, in one instance at least (" Off for a Scamper with Fido ' "), ingeniously turned to the purpose of the Annual. Some pictures of Stratford-on-Avon, and some excellently drawn wild beasts, may be specially mentioned. There is a serial tale, "The Giant's Hold," by "E. Vincent Briton," a good story of a bachelor uncle, who was brought to his right mind by the presence of some children, and a variety of other readable things, among them a capital yachting experience, "A Midnight Sail," by Mrs. Frank Cowper, the story of getting out of Swanage Harbour in a gale. The Children's Illustrated Annual is -to appear in future, we understand from a postscript, as an "annual" in the proper sense of the term.
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